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display reverted to vga and 16 colors for patriot computer
This happened after I rigged up my USB printer to a friends computer.
After I had disconnected my printer and set his LPT printer back to default I noticed the screen had gone black but then went into vga mode. I assume it was because was still looking for my USB printer, could not find it and all non-essential drivers are shut down including SVGA. (I don't know why as I set his printer back to default but there we are...) Yesterday I tried to fix the problem. Firstly I uninstalled my printer software. Then went to display settings and I couldn't move slider from 480x640 setting. The colours were still set to 16. I went into system/device manager and the adapter listed was "Standard PCI Graphics Adaptor (VGA)". I then tried to reinstall the video drivers via properties/driver/update driver of display. I put the Windows 98se disk (my friend definitely has this OS). There were two choices: 1)"Search for a better driver than the device is using now." When I followed this Windows just reinstalled the existing file from?to?" c/windows/inf/monitor.inf. (I am not sure if monitor.inf is the driver or something that the driver installs - can you tell me). 2)"Display list of all the drivers in a specific location so you can select driver you want". When I chose this I got 2 choices ----Show compatible hardware. This was empty. And when I pressed "Have Disk" I just got c/windows /inf/monitor.inf again. ----Show all hardware. This gave a list in left column of driver makes and in right of the all the associated drivers. Top of left column was "standard display types" and in right there was supervga as well as xga and vga. I assume svga is what i want. I then tried two methods. I chose svga and then "have disk", nothing much happened but I restarted computer and the slider and was able to move slider in display settings to 800x600. However when I tried to apply changes, nothing happened and restarting computer just took it back to basic setting. (There was also a windows error message about display setting not being compatible etc). I then tried another method. I went back into Update device driver wizard via system/device manager/display/properties/update driver/show all hardware. I opened each display driver folder and tried to install the file from the OS disk. I thought at least one driver would work! Every time I did it, I got the message "the driver you have chosen was not written for the hardware on your computer". The driver folders in the OS drivers/display folder we trident,stb,smotion,s3,neomagic,matrix,intel,cyrix ,3dfx. So I don't understand what has happened to the original SVGA driver and why the system is not able to accept any of the drivers on the WIN98 SE CD. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT HAS HAPPENED? However I took the details of the computer mainboard model number and the circuit board. The circuit board is SiS630 and through google I have found chipsets listed with this name. I assume chipset and circuit board is the same thing..? I have also found video chipset with this name and a site where I can download it. The system is made by Patriot and motherboard manufactured by Amptron. http://www.modem-help.co.uk/mfc/patriot.html#BKII630e. The motherboard is listed on computer as Patriot PBCX533/1 but at the site it is listed as BKII630e MB - I found it through seeing SiS630. So now I am downloading the driver from www.softwarepatch.com. However in the manual for the motherboard, the graphics drivers are listed on the software CD as d:/vga/bk630. I am unclear why they are listed in VGA folder when machine can support SVGA mode. I have already spent 3 1/2 hours trying to fix this so want to get it right as he lives 15 miles away and it becoming a real shlepp! I look forward to your comments! |
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display reverted to vga and 16 colors for patriot computer
You're on the right track by searching for the drivers for your particular
hardware. Don't pay attention to labels like VGA or SVGA - they are used interchangeably. Your video adapter hardware is probably listed on screen immediately after power-on. You can also use a utility such as Sandra to identify it, or even open the case and take a look at the video chipset (assuming it's a motherboard adapter - you can tell from the location of the monitor connector). You won't find it on the Windows CD as it was probably not manufactured until after Widows 98 was released. If you've identified the motherboard properly as BKII630e then the video chipset is SiS630E (ie, the video chipset and the motherboard chipset are the same) and the video drivers are at http://www.amptron.com/asp/driverslist.asp?name=BK630 -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (DTS) "rosenmarsh" wrote in message om... This happened after I rigged up my USB printer to a friends computer. After I had disconnected my printer and set his LPT printer back to default I noticed the screen had gone black but then went into vga mode. I assume it was because was still looking for my USB printer, could not find it and all non-essential drivers are shut down including SVGA. (I don't know why as I set his printer back to default but there we are...) Yesterday I tried to fix the problem. Firstly I uninstalled my printer software. Then went to display settings and I couldn't move slider from 480x640 setting. The colours were still set to 16. I went into system/device manager and the adapter listed was "Standard PCI Graphics Adaptor (VGA)". I then tried to reinstall the video drivers via properties/driver/update driver of display. I put the Windows 98se disk (my friend definitely has this OS). There were two choices: 1)"Search for a better driver than the device is using now." When I followed this Windows just reinstalled the existing file from?to?" c/windows/inf/monitor.inf. (I am not sure if monitor.inf is the driver or something that the driver installs - can you tell me). 2)"Display list of all the drivers in a specific location so you can select driver you want". When I chose this I got 2 choices ----Show compatible hardware. This was empty. And when I pressed "Have Disk" I just got c/windows /inf/monitor.inf again. ----Show all hardware. This gave a list in left column of driver makes and in right of the all the associated drivers. Top of left column was "standard display types" and in right there was supervga as well as xga and vga. I assume svga is what i want. I then tried two methods. I chose svga and then "have disk", nothing much happened but I restarted computer and the slider and was able to move slider in display settings to 800x600. However when I tried to apply changes, nothing happened and restarting computer just took it back to basic setting. (There was also a windows error message about display setting not being compatible etc). I then tried another method. I went back into Update device driver wizard via system/device manager/display/properties/update driver/show all hardware. I opened each display driver folder and tried to install the file from the OS disk. I thought at least one driver would work! Every time I did it, I got the message "the driver you have chosen was not written for the hardware on your computer". The driver folders in the OS drivers/display folder we trident,stb,smotion,s3,neomagic,matrix,intel,cyrix ,3dfx. So I don't understand what has happened to the original SVGA driver and why the system is not able to accept any of the drivers on the WIN98 SE CD. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT HAS HAPPENED? However I took the details of the computer mainboard model number and the circuit board. The circuit board is SiS630 and through google I have found chipsets listed with this name. I assume chipset and circuit board is the same thing..? I have also found video chipset with this name and a site where I can download it. The system is made by Patriot and motherboard manufactured by Amptron. http://www.modem-help.co.uk/mfc/patriot.html#BKII630e. The motherboard is listed on computer as Patriot PBCX533/1 but at the site it is listed as BKII630e MB - I found it through seeing SiS630. So now I am downloading the driver from www.softwarepatch.com. However in the manual for the motherboard, the graphics drivers are listed on the software CD as d:/vga/bk630. I am unclear why they are listed in VGA folder when machine can support SVGA mode. I have already spent 3 1/2 hours trying to fix this so want to get it right as he lives 15 miles away and it becoming a real shlepp! I look forward to your comments! |
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display reverted to vga and 16 colors for patriot computer
thanks Jeff
Just to let you know what happened. I downloaded the driver listed AJP drivers 2.06 because I assumed the graphics drivers were somehow integrated into the main motherboard drivers. However I could not install them whether through display settings/advanced or device manager/display settings/update driver. I got the same message about hardware not being compatible or something like it. However I had also downloaded the video chipset drivers Sis630 from softwarepatch.com and they have worked on install. I don't really understand why video chipset drivers worked and AJP drivers didn't - perhaps you could explain? But at least it worked!!! Many thanks for help and any further feedback "Jeff Richards" wrote in message ... You're on the right track by searching for the drivers for your particular hardware. Don't pay attention to labels like VGA or SVGA - they are used interchangeably. Your video adapter hardware is probably listed on screen immediately after power-on. You can also use a utility such as Sandra to identify it, or even open the case and take a look at the video chipset (assuming it's a motherboard adapter - you can tell from the location of the monitor connector). You won't find it on the Windows CD as it was probably not manufactured until after Widows 98 was released. If you've identified the motherboard properly as BKII630e then the video chipset is SiS630E (ie, the video chipset and the motherboard chipset are the same) and the video drivers are at http://www.amptron.com/asp/driverslist.asp?name=BK630 -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (DTS) "rosenmarsh" wrote in message om... This happened after I rigged up my USB printer to a friends computer. After I had disconnected my printer and set his LPT printer back to default I noticed the screen had gone black but then went into vga mode. I assume it was because was still looking for my USB printer, could not find it and all non-essential drivers are shut down including SVGA. (I don't know why as I set his printer back to default but there we are...) Yesterday I tried to fix the problem. Firstly I uninstalled my printer software. Then went to display settings and I couldn't move slider from 480x640 setting. The colours were still set to 16. I went into system/device manager and the adapter listed was "Standard PCI Graphics Adaptor (VGA)". I then tried to reinstall the video drivers via properties/driver/update driver of display. I put the Windows 98se disk (my friend definitely has this OS). There were two choices: 1)"Search for a better driver than the device is using now." When I followed this Windows just reinstalled the existing file from?to?" c/windows/inf/monitor.inf. (I am not sure if monitor.inf is the driver or something that the driver installs - can you tell me). 2)"Display list of all the drivers in a specific location so you can select driver you want". When I chose this I got 2 choices ----Show compatible hardware. This was empty. And when I pressed "Have Disk" I just got c/windows /inf/monitor.inf again. ----Show all hardware. This gave a list in left column of driver makes and in right of the all the associated drivers. Top of left column was "standard display types" and in right there was supervga as well as xga and vga. I assume svga is what i want. I then tried two methods. I chose svga and then "have disk", nothing much happened but I restarted computer and the slider and was able to move slider in display settings to 800x600. However when I tried to apply changes, nothing happened and restarting computer just took it back to basic setting. (There was also a windows error message about display setting not being compatible etc). I then tried another method. I went back into Update device driver wizard via system/device manager/display/properties/update driver/show all hardware. I opened each display driver folder and tried to install the file from the OS disk. I thought at least one driver would work! Every time I did it, I got the message "the driver you have chosen was not written for the hardware on your computer". The driver folders in the OS drivers/display folder we trident,stb,smotion,s3,neomagic,matrix,intel,cyrix ,3dfx. So I don't understand what has happened to the original SVGA driver and why the system is not able to accept any of the drivers on the WIN98 SE CD. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT HAS HAPPENED? However I took the details of the computer mainboard model number and the circuit board. The circuit board is SiS630 and through google I have found chipsets listed with this name. I assume chipset and circuit board is the same thing..? I have also found video chipset with this name and a site where I can download it. The system is made by Patriot and motherboard manufactured by Amptron. http://www.modem-help.co.uk/mfc/patriot.html#BKII630e. The motherboard is listed on computer as Patriot PBCX533/1 but at the site it is listed as BKII630e MB - I found it through seeing SiS630. So now I am downloading the driver from www.softwarepatch.com. However in the manual for the motherboard, the graphics drivers are listed on the software CD as d:/vga/bk630. I am unclear why they are listed in VGA folder when machine can support SVGA mode. I have already spent 3 1/2 hours trying to fix this so want to get it right as he lives 15 miles away and it becoming a real shlepp! I look forward to your comments! |
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display reverted to vga and 16 colors for patriot computer
Thanks for letting us know that you got it sorted out. I guess it's possible
that the AJP site has their files mixed up. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (DTS) "Matthew Rosen Marsh" wrote in message ... thanks Jeff Just to let you know what happened. I downloaded the driver listed AJP drivers 2.06 because I assumed the graphics drivers were somehow integrated into the main motherboard drivers. However I could not install them whether through display settings/advanced or device manager/display settings/update driver. I got the same message about hardware not being compatible or something like it. However I had also downloaded the video chipset drivers Sis630 from softwarepatch.com and they have worked on install. I don't really understand why video chipset drivers worked and AJP drivers didn't - perhaps you could explain? But at least it worked!!! Many thanks for help and any further feedback |
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